Did you Know? thread

[Punkess]

Hehe I like that goldfish name. I had a friend who called hers fish and chips.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel

 

[newtownbluebags]

Hehe I like that goldfish name. I had a friend who called hers fish and chips.

A rat can last longer without water than a camel

I had two called that once :lol:

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food. :shock: :crazy:

 

[Punkess]

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the sharks' stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Orcas have also been known to play 'frisbee' with stingrays before eating them.

 

[newtownbluebags]

Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.

 

[Punkess]

In NSW, Bowel cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death for males and females.

There were about 1,637 deaths from bowel cancer in 2003.

 

[Punkess]

- Melanoma is the second most common cancer in males and females in NSW. It was the most common cancer in males aged 25-54 years and in females aged 15-29 years.
- 1 in 24 males and 1 in 35 females will develop melanoma by the age of 75.

 

[newtownbluebags]

Gorillas sleep as much as fourteen hours per day.......

 

[RK]

I can sleep for 14 hours a day!!!

 

[newtownbluebags]

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.......

 

[Punkess]

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

I suck at chess!!

 

[Punkess]

Most lipstick contains fish scale pearl essence, which is the stuff that makes their scales shiny!

 

[RK]

Mel Blanc, who played the voice of Bugs Bunny, was allergic to carrots

 

[RK]

MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge

 

[newtownbluebags]

There are more than fifty different kinds of kangaroos...................

 

[Punkess]

Upper and lower case letters are named "upper" and "lower" because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

 

[RK]

Women make up 49% of the world population

 

[newtownbluebags]

Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe................
meow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[RK]

On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).

 

[newtownbluebags]

You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have 36.

 

[RK]

Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.